Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's untimely death in 1997 robbed Pakistan of an immense talent and world music of one of its twin godheads (Youssou N'Dour being the other).

Elvis Presley and John Lennon may look like the twin godheads of 20th century pop music but for a huge swathe of the world - Africa, the Caribbean and black Britain in particular - one man ranks head and shoulders above them: Bob Marley.

I can read the godheads like Charles Shaar Murray and Greil Marcus, but it's those prose terrorists writing themselves into the story at the fringes that truly get past the sound my ears hear and write the one my heart hears.